Congress leader Karti Chidambaram was on Tuesday being investigated in a new case over alleged foreign remittances. As the searches began, the Congress leader took to social media to say that he had “lost count” of the number of cases filed against him.

Karti Chidambaram made the comments shortly after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at multiple residential and official premises linked to him.

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“I have lost count, how many times has it been? Must be a record,” he said in a cryptic Tweet.

The searches are reportedly being conducted at around seven premises of the Congress leader across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga, from where Karti Chidambaram has been elected to the Lok Sabha.

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The investigative agency registered a fresh case against Karti Chidambaram for allegedly receiving illegal gratification. It is reported that the Congress MP facilitated the project visa to a company for a power project in Punjab in lieu of illegal gratification between 2010-14.

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During the course of the investigation in the INX media case, the agency recovered some documents which unearthed this case.

Karti Chidambaram is also being probed in several cases, including the one relating to Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX Media for receiving foreign funds to the tune of Rs 305 crore when his father was the finance minister.

The CBI registered a corruption case in the matter on May 15, 2017. Subsequently, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) lodged the money laundering case.

In February 2018, Karti Chidambaram was arrested by CBI and was granted bail after a month in March.